Education Minister backs GES’ zero-tolerance policy on criminal conduct in schools

Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has given the Ghana Education Service (GES) full backing to adopt and enforce a zero-tolerance policy towards criminal conduct in schools.

Haruna Iddrisu was emphatic that criminal conduct must have no place within Ghana’s school environment, warning that tolerating such behaviour could undermine the fundamental purpose of schools as safe spaces for teaching and learning.“Criminality or criminal conduct should not ever find space in the school environment, and should not ever be tolerated or accommodated,” he stressed.